NIS-ITA

The International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences (NIS-ITA) was a research program initiated by the UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (MoD) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), which was active for 10 years from May 2006 to May 2016.

A unique aspect of ITA was its focus on solving scientific problems in the context of coalition operations.

In the last five years of its existence, the four technical areas were consolidated and revised into two technical areas (v) Coalition Inter-operable Secure & Hybrid Networks and (vi) Distributed Coalition Information Processing for Decision Making.

The non-government members of the alliance in both countries consisted of both industrial and academic research organizations as listed below: All of the organizations were members at the initiation of the program, with the exception of Cardiff University and Airbus UK which were added in the middle of the life-time of the alliance.

As per the end of program book of achievements published by the alliance, its major scientific advances include:

The set of partner research organizations in the NIS ITA Alliance.